Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...levels that are unrealistically high, even for the normally inflated real estate market in Southern California. Says Frank Carr, executive vice president of W.R. Grace Properties, Inc., a land-developing arm of W.R. Grace & Co.: "I've never seen anything like it. You have to call it hysteria...
...last major league appearance in 1959, Ted Williams drilled a line drive into the right-field bullpen for a home run, capping one of the greatest careers either the park or the game had ever seen. The crowd erupted in hysteria; but, then, this was mad, sensuous Fenway...
...student. Smart girls weren't supposed to get boy friends." Says Messer, "Psychiatrists see Southern women because of their rage and resentment at having to bury their feelings. Northern women tend to be treated by psychiatrists more for depression and paranoia. There is much more hysteria in Southern patients." But, Messer notes, change is in the air: fewer Southern women are hiding anger and frustration behind the image of the happy gentlewoman...
...power struggle seethed between the pharaohs of the 18th dynasty and the priesthood of Amen, the most powerful of the gods. Amenhotep III, an easygoing, able administrator, failed to move firmly against the priests. When his son Amenhotep IV finally did strike at the priests, it was with a hysteria that unsettled courtiers and populace. Yet it was this man, a neurotic genius with a face and body distorted by what seems to have been a severe hormonal imbalance, who declared the Aten, the disc of the sun, to be the one true god. Then he closed the temples...
...swatch of southern Sudan-on the basis of some 19th century colonial maps that showed them to be Ugandan territory. Fearing that Amin was concocting an excuse that could be a first step toward obtaining an Indian Ocean outlet for his landlocked state, Kenyans reacted with officially encouraged hysteria. Rallies throughout the country vilified Amin; one group of villagers even offered a $120,000 reward for Amin's head-literally-on a platter...